The Seaforth News, 1934-07-26, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
HURON COUNTY LEADS
!PROVINCE IN •FLAX
• [With 86.82 of its •area ele tired,
Perth Comity stands third' ainrong
the counties anddistricts of the prov-
ince for percentage o'f rural land clear-
ed, the annual report of the statistics
branch, Ontario Department of Ag-
riculture, shows. Counties having a
,greater percentage of their rural areas
pleased are Middlesex and Peel. The
:report shows that there are `5119,01i7
acres assessed in Perth County, Of
that total, 511111)31317 acres are resident
upon, and 7,)880 are non-resident.
Huron County's percentaoge of
cleared rural land is 815:07 out of a
total area of 801,5137 acres, Bruce
county with a total ruralarea of
932;362 acres has 62)52 af`that acreage
cleared.
!Huron County was sixth last year
in acreage of fall wheat planted.
Huron'sacreage of fall wheat was
'27,468; Perth had 23,447 acres; and
Bruce lead 118,17160, 'Huron's acreage
of. Spring wheat was high, also..'That
county had a total of 2)8116 acres in
Spring wheat; Perth had 1,S21217 and
Bence had '11713 acres.
lin acreage devoted to oats, Huron
was third among the counties of the
province, with a total of 11102)1161
acres. Perth had 76,4211' acres in oats,
and Brute had 99,113 acres. Perth
[Huron County is second only to
Lincoln in !orchard acreage with V1,-
204 acres. I,n Perth '•the acreage of
orchard is 5)43 and in Bruce 6,7151,.
Cleared pasture acreage in Perth is
given as 87,1179; !Bruce, 1138,01115 and
Huron 11549319, The acreage of sum-
mer fallow in Perth is 12,1'OIS; Brace
113,296 and Huron 9,3016."
The report contains a table show-
ing the average prices by counties
of agricultural products during • the
year 1936. The table gives the average
Price for :fate wheat in Perth as 65
cents 'per bushel; oats, 312.8; barley
.40; peas .717; rye :ale btickwheat 4,1,8
rents; potatoes S9 cents per bushel;
hay, $6.40 •per on,
..1In Bruce, the average prices for
the year were 64.3 cents for fall
wheat; oats 33 cents; barley 40c;
peas S11 cents; rye 150 cents; buck-
wheat 39.6; ,potatoes 59.5; hay $7
per ton.
Average prices in Huron for the
year where: 65.4 for fall wheat; oats
312,5 cents; barley 40.8; rye 51.2;
buckwheat 40.8 cents; potatoes 61
cents per bushel; hay $16.50 per ton.
(Farm lands, buildings, implements
and live stack on hand in the County
of Perth for 1933 were valued at $49,-
8027159, The land was valued at $23,-
4015,089; .bui'Idings, $116,449,050; imple-
ments, $4,2212,036; live stook on handl
$511126,3'94.
farmers were among the leading bar liluron County's land, buildings
ley :growers of the province devptiog implements and live stock on hand
212)103 acres to that purpose. Huron.
farmers had 105;859 acres of barley,
and Bruce farmers had 116,031 acres.
(While Huron farmers were third
in the province in planting 8,511:7
acres to beans, Bruce and Perth far-
mers were neglecting this crop. The
total Perth acreage in beans was 1167,
and Bruce farmers had but 50 acres.
Bruce farmers were fourth in grow-
ing peas. planting 2,922 acres, Huron
had 2,4165 acres planted in peas and
Perth had 911 acres.
[Rye received little attention fn any
of the three counties. The acreage de-
voted to rye in Perth was 106 acres;
in Huron 2411; and ;in Bruce 121,
OIurot was fourth in buckwheat acre-
age with 10,690 acres. Perth's acreage
was 5,2'16 and Bruce County's 5,0611.
IHerop led the province in flax
acreage, with 13117 acres. In Perth
the acreage devoted to flax was but
.1175 acres; and in !Bruce it was 810.
The acreage planted in mixed grains
in Huron •was 55,1256 acres, the
highest in the province.. Perth was
third with '512,66'8 acres, Bruce
had 33,496 acres in mixed grains.
Of the three counties Perth had
the greatest acreage in corn for en-
e.ilage with a total of 7,957 acres,
Huron's acreage was 5,469 and
Bruce's 3,'51218.
!Perth stood well down in the list sugar and a tough jelly from the ad-
,a potato ,producing county with adition of ton little.
, eseiir
rel acreage of 2,603. Bruce Co, had Asthma. Even a little
ti potato acreage of 31301? and Iliaron Dust Causes
had 3, 308 acres. speck tun small to see will lead to a-
lOther crops and the acreage plant- gonies which no words can describe.
ed in the three counties, follows; The walls of the breathing tubes co -
Mangels- Terth 2,508; Bruce 1,278, tract and -it seems, as if the very life
Heron 2;407; sugar beets, Perth 22,must pass. :From this condition Dr.
"+h 7 D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy
brings the user to perfect rest. It
relieves the passages ands normal
breathing is firmly established again.
Hundreds of testimonials received an-
nually prove its effectiveness.
were valued at a total -of $64,677,-
0419; Bruce County's at $512$24,617
FACTORS IN FRUIT
JELLY MAKING
(Experimental. Farms Note.)
Three substances are essential to
a goad jelly. They are pectin, sugar
and acid. Pectin is the primary jelly-
ing agent. It varies considerably in
fruits both in quality and quantity,
Analysis of small fruits, in the chemi-
cal laboratories of the Central Experi-
mental Farm, has shawls how readily
pectin deteriorates. To retain their
maximum jellying capacity, these
fruits should be picked when just ripe
and should be used as soon as pos-
sible after picking.
Sugar ,plays an important part in.
jelly formation. Texture, flavour and
yield of jelly are largely determined
by the amount of sagaadded: Ord-
inarily, the best jellies contain about.
'66 to 63 per cent of sugar in the fin-
ished product, but the necessary am-
ount of sugar to be added will vary
with the composition of the fruit. Too
much sugar• in proportion to pectin
and acid is one of the most common
causes of failure in jelly making, Oth-
er things .being equal, a weak jelly
results from the addition of too much
X,- RAY
gWen the rainbow promise was
fr st set in the :cloud the violet border
of it was fringed with twilight X rays.
In ear4•y July when the weather be-
comes sizzling 'hot, and we stay an
the beach or round the 'old swim-
min' hole" too long and then awake
the next morning with ottr backs and
shoulders throbbing with sunburn, we
have had our first experience with the
light that bites through the skin; we
have had our first mild X-ray burn,
It was many thousands of years af-
ter the first rainbow and the first
case of sunburn that we. discovered
the X 'rays and were able to split
them off from the other lengths of
short wave rays that cluster round
and beyond the violet end of that do-
mesticated rainbow, the spectrum.
You make a spectrum by splitting up
white light, or daylight, into the six
main or rainbow' colors, red, orange,
yellow, ;green, thine and violet._ You
can do it with a prism or with any
,piece of glass similar to the beveled
edge of a plate -glass mirror. Or, by
painting stripes of the six bright col-
ors on the top or the sides of a top
and then spinning it rapidly, yoit can
watch the brilliant tints melt into one
another and form a dull whitish gray.
Then if you like you can "let the dog
die" and see the individual colors
gradually become more and store- dis-
tinct as the speed Of the top dim-
inishes, 'For hundreds of years we
were content to play with those six
pretty colors that our prism threw on
a sheet of paper. Gradually we began
to find out other things about our lit-
tle rainbow, For instance, if we used
sunlight we found that one end of the
ribbon, of colors was warmer than
the other; the sed was warns and the
violet •was cold. The circumstances
started us guessing and testing, and
one day we hit upon the brilliant idea
that the sensation we call light was
produced by throbbing waves like time
ripples that spread in every direction
when you throw a stone into a quiet
pool. We found that short rapid
waves produce blue and green, and
that the Longest and slow•Ct " waves
visible produce red light. But we also
found• that if you place your finger on
the dark or hazy patch beyond or be-
low the red stripe of the spectrum
you will find it very warns indeed,
warner than time red itself. Then we
thought, isn't it pos_ible•that • other
waves that are so long and slow, that
we cannot see them may cause heat?
The guess .was correct; we discovered
a marvelous group of waves beyond
the red end of the ribbon --first heat
waves, then waves of electricity in
various forms and then the so-called
Hertzian waves, those greet " ciow-
gallopin throbs used in wireless tele-
graphy. Last and incredibly the slow•-
eet waves of all were disc from
liglatning which had always been a
syeonynt for excessive speed,
i\We tinned our attention to the
stumbled' on She .secret of the X rays.
He was puzzled to find that when he
sent a high current of electricity
through a glass tribe that was almost
empty of air the electric charge threw
off rays that could go through his
hand and affect a photographic plate
on the other side of it 1 4o one made
any practical use of the curious pow-
er until sixteen years later, when
Rontgen, who was working with a
Crookes tube, reasoned that, beca}ase
the rays would go through skin and
nmtsc'Ie more readily than they would
go through ,bone, he could throw on a
photographic plate the shadow of the
bones of a hand. Since the real nature
of the rays was still tmknown, he
called them very sensibly and mod-
estly X rays, X being the unknown
quantity.
Such a revel of X-ray photography,
as followed 1 Every college and labor-
atory and surgeon's office and county
fair bac! its X-ray machine, and peo-
ple rushed to see through their hands,
and gaze at their hones and joints and
their inward :parts. It was, they said,
a .veritable "eye of the Lord, behold-
ing the evil and the good," lad it was
to reveal all mysteries of health and
disease 1 Moreover, any force that
could penetrate the human body and
stake a picture on the other side of
it must surely have wonderful pow-
ers, and probably they were powers
that would cure disease. So, like elec.
tricity before it, the X rays were
vaunted and eagerly tried a remedy
for all sons of incurable or obstinate
diseases. ---cancer, tuberculosis, anea-
nua, diahetee, lnpu., baldness and
various affections of the skin Every-
one wlto thought that the new marvel
might possibly help hint sought the
power of tate rats.
Their :people discove'ed that the
eoft lliekering Mott of the mysterious
tube was dangerous. The hands and
the arms c1 the operators and the
kits of the patients br ,ke out in a
oft of smouldering snnhurm, the eels
or of'whi.rIt was not the familiar
scarlet ink o: the bathing beachee,
hitt a l',in t red, The barn was slow to
appear; often it did not show- until
weeks ,,r month, after the first ex
r.osure. It was still '.lower to heal. In-
tead teeiit,e off and healing over
quickly the burled skin broke into
deep crneke. awl the cracks turned
sores that resiste,1 all treatment.
So that, even if ;he X rays [rad cured
the patient of his original disease, he
had to spend nn.,nt'.is in recovering
from the effect of the rays themselves.
Fortunately for the patients, the
operators soon learned that the rays
were it a m f:1 ..' 1l except a very small
er cent o- the "treatment burns" fi-
nally healed, hitt .'res ., damage
suite reeelte;l from the rash aclventmre.
Now th;tt the danger wee clearly
known Wren of ssienee began at once
to find out how to gnarl against nst it.
and their efforts were 5.1 successful
that for the past ten years X-ray
other edge of the spectrum. If there burn; in patients have become com-
were "dart:" rays of various sorts be n tritiv ely tire; and time few that do
yottrl and below: the red, why shouad
there not be waves ofstili shorter
lengths above and beyond the violet?
Again our guess was a happy one we
gtt'ckly discovered first the "dark"
rays that make photographs, then
those which attack our skins and put
freckles on our noses, and finallynall,wX
rays and radium rays,
;about 11879 Sir William Crookes
Bruce 32, Huron 2512; alsike,
949; Bruce 3;2112; 'Huron 2,379; S.
clover, Perth 1)11,0G5; Bruce 9,152:
Huron 19,330; alfalfa, Perth 9,097;
Bruce, 29,248; Huron 23,575 hay
and clover Perth 86,746; Bruce 100,-
387: Huron 99,423; carrots, Perth.
11: 'Bruce 44; .Huron 16.
Send .us the names of your visitors.
also the power to do harm; every
medicine must be mixed with brains
and common sense before it is admin-
istered, The doctor is an'd always will
be vastly more important than the
drug; no remedy ander" heaven will
be effi,cncious by itself,
But alas for the operatoste of the
X rays! Like the 'patient9, they also
gut the same kind: of smouldering
sunburn on their hands and their
amts; but, whereas the bursts of the
patients even after five, tett or twenty
exposures blazed up and died down
like a prairie fire, their otvn, under the
incessant glare, !tour after hour, day
after day,week afterweek, smould-
ered and ate in under their skins like
a forest •fire under the carpet of dead
leaves and pine needles in the woods.
Cracks in the dein not only formed
and deepened into ulcers and refused
to heal, but a sinister thickening ap-
peared along the sew edges of then.
Skin cells that had gathered there for
the ,purpose of coating over the raw
surface, thwarted of their goal, had
turned hack on themselves and began
to burrow into the healthy skin be-
hind them, The dread cancer proceee
had begun! For whenever any group
Of skin cells rebel and begin to grow
alone and apparently without regard
for the rest of the body cancer is the
result.
One after another dolens of :opera-
tors all over the world became aware
that they were in the grip of an in-
curable disease. The grins cancer crab
--cancer means,crab in every lan-
guage -had fastened on their hands.
Bet not one man faltered; looking
death calmly in the face, they trent
forward like shock troops in the great
battle. Not only was there no single
deserter, hut there carte such swarms
of eager volunteers that every gap in
the ranks was filled, and the half com-
pany grew to a fall company, anal the
company to a battalion, Many are al-
ready dead, and almost every month
claims its new victim; yet the world
ods nn.
It is hard to imagine a ntvre hitter
travesty of our hopes than that the
same rays that have helped cancer
patients and relieved their pain sit till
of their operators s !
cattle tau death
Mit every o of the heroes. worked
to the last with whichever hand 00
stump of hand he had let and many
lifo In$ oit cif Pari" and Dodd of Har-
vard refused to wear the lead-saled
glove and sleeves that wnnld
have protected them, hccaese the•.
ail that the heavy paraphernalia in-
terfered with the delis icy and precis-
ion of their work! Is it any wonder
that the French nation, quick and
PACE THREE
If the physician .suspects .that his
patient has a blind abscess of the
gums, a tumor of the ,brain, a patch
of early tuberculosis in the lungs, an
aneurysm of the aorta, a group of
gallstones in the gall bladder, cal-
culi in the kidney or a cancer ,of the
stomach, he turns on the penetrating.
eye of the golden -green glowing _X•• -
ray tube, and eight times out of ten
he is able to tell for certain whether
his suspicion is right or .wrong.
'Another field is opening for the use
of the rays, the treatment 'of certain
forms of anaemia. The disease seems
to be owing to an overproduction of
white blood cells, which are born or
grown in the lymph glands all over
the body, and it ean'oftem be held in
cheek by "shrinking" the glands with
X rays. ,But there again the X rays
have a vicious quality, Moderate and
infrequent treatment improves the
anaemia; but excessive or too frequent
-sprayings"seem to reach the red
marrow of the bones, where the red;
corpuscles are bred, and prevent their
increasing. Curing one kind of anae-
mia may set up another and more
dangerous acini.
'For every death 'from the X rays
among the operators 'there have been
caused perhaps ten cases of severe
anaemia. some of which make the suf-
ferer a lifelong invalid. And from the
blighting e1Teet of the rays on certain
other glands even more unexpected
mul dismaying disabilities have ap-
peared among X-ray workers.
unt
Check
r
ooks
-cur are of a mild type and are 00
persons .who have :1 special uscepti-
1 ility to the rays. The danger of X -
"ay t1 ataueet ior almost any disease
is now no greater that that which we.
as, :,cia;e with any po wer•;nl remedy
or agency in nu t,c;ne, no for example
arsenic, gninitie Jr mcreul'y, elertrie-
ity, scrums cr the knife. Anything
that has the power to do- good has
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THE PRUNING OF
FLOWERING SHRUBS:
(I:xperintental Fartns Note.)
Shrubs should be pruned to pro.
Wrote development of strong branches
and gond foliage. Old or dead woad
should be removed, particularly from
the centre of the hush, so that light
and air may circulate freely-.
If the new .growth is too crawderl
this a e. should he thinned. out
It is not adv iable to "trim" :.
shrub all round as. this tends to
stake the growth more lege and the
graceful habit ni the =Meth is lost.
Of course. branches that have grown
too long- can be slur eneil but as
general rale growth should be cut
oto either from the ground or within.
a few itches
Spring flowering shrub; fiarm their
bulls early :e slimmer for ac•it sea-
son's bloom so that pruning must be..
dont immedintely after the blootn is
over. If delayel m1:ti; winter trans or
the !lateen butt 'stile 1,c d'strovecl atut.
next year there will he little bloom
:'among the shrubs that 5ho1,11(1 10,
treated in this way are lilac, mock or-
ange, spirc:ste awl vihurnnm
fairly safe rile is to remove one-tcfil:
f the ,s1 lest stens eaelt yrar.
;acs the difference between the size
of the flowers on old word and the•
on younger branches 1- so great that
it is difficult t,' believe they come
from: the sante bush.
Summer bloomers w n It bloom or
shoots of the current season's growth.
,should be pruned when doru, t.1t
that strong new growth is formed in
spring; hydrangea panic tlatr. by l,ri '
tea and hybrid perpetual roses an'.
Tamarisk conte tinder this ell H,,t
rangea arborescens is cut lovvn tc th
ground each year at the Central Ex-
perimental Farts and mala net,
growth and .blooms well each season.
Many rose species, bayberries let
bush honeysuckles only need the dea,.
wood removed, Old plants of rs-;
rugosa should have the old wood cit
out near the base so that new strop:
shoots will grow attd renew the plant,
chivalrous as it is in rey i- niziita hero-
ism.
ieo-
ism. should have no,:ndcl Dr, Vntil-
lant, one of these aces" of science.
the Grand Cross 01 the Legion of
1-lotor?
!'haul; heaven, the doomsday roll u;
those ill-fated pioneers , f clic 1 ray,
is now almost complete! Al way to
protect the workers has lx'e11 found.
Since the rays almost unable to pierc•
lead, the heaviest and solidest metal,
lead -covered gloves, sleeves and ap-
rons are used to protect the body
and legs. Similar screen,- awl also
lead sheets cover the whole of the pa-
tient s body cxeept the part that is
being treated. The danger has als,
been attacked at the other rod. Ex-
cept for a tiny opening near one duo+
of
the Crookes tithe. the g5 as walls
of the whole tulle are coated or im-
pregnated with lead salts, So now the
operator works only with a .small
beam of light that 15 scarcely hall an
inert in diameter, and therefore the
risk o hunts is greatly diminished.
Moreover there are almost as many
different kinds of X rays as there are
kinds of electric currents, and some
of them arc much more corrosive
than others. \n immense amount of
brilliantly ingenious •work has :been
done in both photography and treat-
ment in devising screens through
which the most dangerous rays can be
filtered.
.Our brightest hope for the cure of
cancer is that we may be able to at
-
duce the X rays to just the precise
strength that will kill young and ten-
der half-grown cancer cells and yet
leave the healthy full-grown cells of
the body unhurt, The :present method
of turning' the rays of both is too
much like burning down a house to
roast a pig. Already we have ultra-
violet rays, which are just below the
X ray:, and which are of just the
right strength to kill 'germs in the
tissues close to the surface and leave.
the cells of the bncl,y unhurt.
;The devoted band of heroes who
bore the first brunt •of battle have
surely not died in vain, 'Few indeed of
the Arnold •Winkelriecls of science
mill have 'a more triumphant moment
than they. Already the X says that
slew them have been used almost to
double .our power to discover what is
happening in the body. 'Our •whole
modern treatment of fracttt:res is
based on the use of X t ay s amid would
be impossible without them, During
the war the service that they rendered
in accurately showing where bullets
and shells splinters were embedded
was priceless and saved 'thousands of
lives for every one of •that unflinching
little army.
PREVENT CHILDREN FROM
DANGEROUS FUN
Announcement is made by the In.
to tigation Department of the Canad-
ian National 'Railways that a drive
will be 'made t7 stop 'children from
the dangerous practise of stealttte
rides on freigh trains. While this'forn.
of amusement is more prevalent in
and about, cities and large centres of
population, it also persists in rural
districts, children 'attempting to board
long freight trains •when they slog:
down for grades. [Freight conductors
state that in many instances these
juvenile offenders take greater risks
than would an experienced trainman:
Within the past 110 clays a large num-
ber of narrow e's'capes have been re-
ported of ohildren. wrah barely missed
serious injury, or death. Over the
week -end railway police made a
round -up of a number of small of
lenders in the Toronto district and
these were Banded over to the 113ig
Brothers 'for correction and to ,bc
educated eo the dangers of their sport.
The llnve•stigation !Department also
asks the co-operation of parents in an
attempt to eliminate this practise and
states that unless this farm of amuse-
ment ceases drastic action will be
taken to protect the children, from
their own folly: The average offenders
are in :the ueighbothood of about 1C
years of age.
IDistem:per responds quickly to
Douglas' 'Egyptian Liniment. • Keep
n•bottle handy in the stable,
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